Justin Long puzzled about point of Mac ads

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Time magazine's Techland blog has posted a new interview with Justin Long in which the actor talks about working with John Hogdman on Apple and TBWA's famed "Get a Mac" campaign. The two big takeaways:
  1) Long preferred the PC character to the Mac, and therefore, he didn't really get the point of the campaign. "I revere John Hodgman. He's far smarter and funnier than I could ever hope to be. That's why the point of those commercials was a little lost on me.

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